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Re: How many sets?
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Mon, 3 Jan 2000 04:54:30 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Frank Filz writes:
> 
> Mark Herzberg wrote in message ...
> > In lugnet.general, Iain Hendry writes:
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > Today, with nothing better to do, I copied all my set purchases from a • chart
> > > of graph paper into Microsoft Pocket Excell on my HP 32O LX (WindowsCE). I
> > > did a quick column sum for parts number and cost and came up with the
> > > following:
> > > 
> > > Total Sets: 131
> > > Total Parts: 10 587
> > > Total Cost: $3 471.61 (CDN)
> > 
> > Cool. I have been working on this lately. Hope to finish today.
> 
> I've been working on this, but I buy sets faster than I can get them into my
> system. What is currently entered into my system (which may be less than
> half of my collection, and doesn't include parts lots bought off eBay, nor
> many of the sets bought off eBay which didn't come with boxes):
> 
>   Total Sets:     623
>   Total Parts:    109973
>   Total Minifigs: 1274
> 
> It especially doesn't include the tons of minifig lots I've bought, I've
> probably bought 500-1000 minifigs off eBay. I don't have price data entered,
> so don't know how much I've spent.

Geez!  You must have a big house or a lot of storage space to display all that
Lego.  How do you handle that financially?  I've been trying to keep my total
lego value under $500 because well...this might sound silly but there ARE
other things than Lego.



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: How many sets?
 
(...) You're right, that does sound silly :) are you sure there's more to life than lego? do you have proof of this? You're probably one of those people who think the worlds round too aren't you :-) Just incase the smiley's didn't show it.. I am (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: How many sets?
 
(...) One bedroom apartment (check out (URL) some pictures of my bedroom. Most of my LEGO sets are unbuilt, about 1/3 to 1/2 are broken down and sorted, at most 10% are built. How do I handle it financially? Well for starters I don't have a huge (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)
  Re: How many sets?
 
(...) ..... Er..... Um...... under $500 total? That would put me back to 1979, back when my collection had 4 digits in the total parts count. Gary Istok (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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  Re: How many sets?
 
Mark Herzberg wrote in message ... (...) chart (...) I've been working on this, but I buy sets faster than I can get them into my system. What is currently entered into my system (which may be less than half of my collection, and doesn't include (...) (27 years ago, 3-Jan-00, to lugnet.general)

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